Fi Span news and trends

TRENDING: APIs Bring FIs Back In The B2B Game
API // January 10, 2018

Old and new tech are both coming into play in B2B API. The ever-changing value of bitcoin has been making headlines, and delivering and dashing investors’ dreams along the way. And recently, B2B API players have been tuned in, paying close attention to the cryptocurrency’s rising and...

How FIs Compete In The ‘API Economy’
API // December 14, 2017

APIs are more than an easy way for developers to access web services — they are the connective tissue that brings banks and FinTechs together. In the December PYMNTS B2B API Tracker™, a FI.SPAN collaboration, Tom Eck, IBM’s chief technology officer, discusses the growth of...

TRENDING: IBM On The New Rules Of The ‘API Economy’
API // December 13, 2017

The emergence of APIs is doing more than just changing the way banks and FinTechs operate. It’s forcing them to create new marketplaces and ecosystems where innovations are traded and, in the process, upending the traditional rules of the financial services market. With the market...

FI.SPAN, Beanworks Target Mid-Market With B2B Payments Hub
B2B Payments // December 08, 2017

Financial services application program interface (API) platform FI.SPAN is collaborating with B2B payments company Beanworks to create a corporate payments hub, the companies announced Thursday (Dec. 8). The businesses will target mid-market business customers and create a B2B payments hub through Beanworks’ existing BeanPay platform....

Interviews & Exclusives
Why APIs Are The Beginning — Not The End

October 16, 2017
From an acronym known mostly by programmers in the early 2000s to something thousands of innovators have embraced to ignite numerous innovative solutions, it’s been an electric journey for the application program interface (API). According to David Koch, chief commercial officer at financial services provider FI.SPAN — a company that build an API-based platform to […]

NEW REPORT: Can An API-Born Bot Curb Buyer’s Remorse?

October 11, 2017
Based on the activity of the past few weeks, it seems API-based solutions are becoming more at home on mobile devices as various companies launched several app-based solutions to expedite...

FI.SPAN: APIs That Pack A B2B Punch

September 11, 2017
It’s not fair, said FI.SPAN CEO and Co-Founder Lisa Shields, that Bill.com and AvidXchange get to have all the business payments fun — and there’s no reason why banks shouldn’t...

Open Banking, Open APIs, Wide Open Opportunities?

August 17, 2017
Europe has mandates in place for open API adoption (perhaps you’ve heard of PSD2)? Here in the States, the playing field is taking shape, but in an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen...